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The right of members of a company to call a general meeting under the Corporations Act

Corporate & Commercial| 07 Mar 2017

The right of members of a company to call a general meeting under the Corporations Act

In March 2015, the Corporations Legislation Amendment (Deregulatory and Other Measures) Act 2015 (Cth) (Amending Act) abolished the statutory right of 100 (or more) members of a company to require the directors of the company to convene a general meeting of members.

New mandatory data breach notification legislation

Corporate & Commercial| 17 Feb 2017

New mandatory data breach notification legislation

The long awaited Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 (Bill) was passed in the Australian Parliament on 13 February 2017.

It’s nothing personal… Federal Court finds that ‘personal information’ must be information ‘about an individual’

Privacy| 30 Jan 2017

It’s nothing personal… Federal Court finds that ‘personal information’ must be information ‘about an individual’

On 19 January 2017, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia handed down its much anticipated decision in relation to whether certain types of network data stored by Telstra Corporation Limited (Telstra) was ‘personal information’ for the purposes of the ...